DFG project “The populist challenge in parliament” (2019-2021, in cooperation with Christian Stecker, Marcel Lewandowsky, Jochen Müller)
- PolMine Project:
- long history of experiments with cooccurrence graphs and graph visualisation
- long history of difficulties to make sense of this analytical approach (derived from corpus linguistics) from the point of view of social science methodology
- graph annotation widget (gradget) as a recent development: New workflow that combines qualitative and quantitative exploration of cooccurrence graphs
Substantial interest: Data-driven (but conceptually guided) reconstruction of AfD ideology.
- Methodological interest:
- Validity and intersubjectivity of data-driven, “distant reading” approaches (Moretti 2013)
- Special focus: Interactive graph annotation as an approach to generate intersubjectively shared interpretations/understandings of discourse patterns.